Qwen — Field Evidence
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Qwen · Qwen · incident
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Cost of Reasoning in non-English Languages: A Case Study on Japanese — Reasoning Language Models (RLMs) achieve their strongest performance when they reason in English, the language for which reasoning-oriented training data is most abundant. However, reasoning trace is a clue fo
collected 2026-07-14original 2026-07-11
Does this shift the US–China race?
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Safety concern · minor
China -15
Directional contribution — before recency decay and per-type diminishing returns. How it works →
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Likely — capability gap narrowing on common tasks
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